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THE FIRST EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE<br/>
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CHAPTER 13
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Paul extols the high status of charity—Charity, a pure love, excels and exceeds almost all else.
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Though</span> I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/13/1a" mark="a" type="P" title="GR love.">charity</a>, I am become <i>as</i> sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
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And though I have <i>the gift of</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/13/2a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Prophecy.">prophecy</a>, and understand all <sup>b</sup><a href="1_cor/13/2b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Mysteries of Godliness.">mysteries</a>, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
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And though I bestow all my goods to feed <i>the <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/13/3a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Welfare.">poor</a>,</i> and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/13/4a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Charity; TG Courtesy.">Charity</a> <sup>b</sup><a href="1_cor/13/4b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Forbearance; TG Suffering.">suffereth</a> long, <i>and</i> is <sup>c</sup><a href="1_cor/13/4c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Benevolence.">kind</a>; charity <sup>d</sup><a href="1_cor/13/4d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Envy.">envieth</a> not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
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Doth not behave itself <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/13/5a" mark="a" type="P" title="GR indecently, unbecomingly.">unseemly</a>, seeketh not her <sup>b</sup><a href="1_cor/13/5b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Selfishness.">own</a>, is not easily <sup>c</sup><a href="1_cor/13/5c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Anger; TG Provoking; TG Self-mastery.">provoked</a>, thinketh no evil;
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Rejoiceth not in <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/13/6a" mark="a" type="P" title="GR injustice, unrighteousness.">iniquity</a>, but rejoiceth in the <sup>b</sup><a href="1_cor/13/6b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Truth.">truth</a>;
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Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
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Charity never <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/13/8a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Dependability.">faileth</a>: but whether <i>there be</i> prophecies, they shall fail; whether <i>there be</i> tongues, they shall cease; whether <i>there be</i> knowledge, it shall vanish away.
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For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
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But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
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When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
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For now we see through a <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/13/12a" mark="a" type="C" title="2 Cor. 3: 18; James 1: 23 (22-27); TG Veil.">glass</a>, <sup>b</sup><a href="1_cor/13/12b" mark="b" type="P" title="GR obscurely, enigmatically.">darkly</a>; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
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And now abideth <sup>a</sup><a href="1_cor/13/13a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Faith.">faith</a>, <sup>b</sup><a href="1_cor/13/13b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Hope.">hope</a>, <sup>c</sup><a href="1_cor/13/13c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Love.">charity</a>, these three; but the greatest of these <i>is</i> charity.
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